Like a bad apple Crossword Clue

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ROTTEN

(6 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

LIKE (verb)
1. prefer or wish to do something
2. feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard
LIKE (adjective)
1. resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination
2. conforming in every respect
LIKE (noun)
1. a similar kind
2. a kind of person
APPLE (noun)
1. native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
2. fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

ROTTEN
(6 letters)

More NYT Crossword (10/25/2026) Answers

Across

1. "Aladdin" sidekick

4. Sommelier's asset

8. "Qué ___!" (Spanish "Awesome!")

13. Locale of the food dishes larb and thum mak hoong

17. The British throne?

18. Mexican sandwich

19. Encroach on, as space

21. Land that poets call Hibernia

22. Firefly vis-à-vis a fruit fly?

24. Peridot vis-à-vis jade?

26. N.F.L.'er with horns on his helmet

27. Notwithstanding

29. Low-quality, machine-generated content, in modern lingo

30. Implied

32. Cologne waters

33. Southern dish made from hominy

34. Muscle Beach vis-à-vis Venice Beach?

37. Dal ___ (musical notation)

40. "Right, gotcha"

41. Stark sister from Winterfell

42. Goalie's goal

43. Apt rhyme for crop and chop

46. Music artist on the 2012 album "Yokokimthurston"

47. "Happy Days" actor Scott

49. Oil vis-à-vis water?

54. Maximally ritzy

56. New hire at a factory

57. Who can see right through you, in brief?

58. Chevy S.U.V.

60. Fertile soils

61. Showed again, in a way

63. Zipper up vis-à-vis zipper down?

67. Weight room vis-à-vis the cardio room?

70. Sugar amounts

71. Things some checkers check

73. Man's name that means "prosperous" in Arabic

74. Thurman of "Pulp Fiction"

75. "Lizzie ___," Disney Channel sitcom starring Hilary Duff

78. "Poker Face" actress Lyonne

82. Maui vis-à-vis Oahu?

85. Shivering fit

86. Apple runs on it

87. Intelligence org.

88. Not on solid ground

89. Sitarist Shankar

91. Pious offerings

92. Amphibians taken on at least six different space missions

94. Blazer vis-à-vis a windbreaker?

101. Name on a museum plaque, maybe

102. Like ears and brains

103. Undivided

105. Surfer's navigational aid

107. Orléans river

109. Delaware vis-à-vis the other 12 colonies?

111. "OMG THIS IS AWESOME!!!!" vis-à-vis "good job i guess"?

114. Face covering?

115. Blues singer Ma ___

116. "___ we all?"

117. Spring for a fancy hotel?

118. B.B. King's "___ Dynamite"

119. Subject of inflation

120. Brood

121. M.L.B.'ers with a red "B" on their caps

All Answers

Down

1. Every last one

2. Illegal thing to jump

3. Artistic designs that glow under black light

4. Mainstream sort, slangily

5. Scepter topper

6. Beefcake

7. With excitement

8. "Gandhi," ""Amadeus" or "Malcolm X"

9. Break a tie?

10. Digital party request

11. Where a congregation congregates

12. Keats wrote one to a nightingale

13. "Time to get moving!"

14. Garlicky emulsification

15. "... never mind"

16. Slips through the cracks

18. Cover letters, say?

20. Time of one's life, in modern slang

23. Record number?

25. 37-Across, in English

28. Sandy hazard for sailors

31. Backstabber, e.g.

34. Playful tap on the head

35. "Hmm ... pass"

36. Homie

37. Meet, as all the requirements

38. "I can't ___!"

39. Richard who had his first starring role in 1978's "Days of Heaven"

42. SeaWorld orca

44. Notable part of "Hey Jude" or "Layla"

45. Fibonacci or Galileo, by birth

47. "Heck if I know"

48. Eponym of a U.S. Open stadium

50. "How was ___ know?"

51. Up for ___

52. Iron compound in magnets

53. Copenhagen native

55. Start of an unencrypted web address

59. Gives off

60. Spandex trademark

62. "The Snowy Day" author ___ Jack Keats

63. Turn on an axis

64. Not an extraterrestrial

65. Amherst sch.

66. Pugilist Ali

68. One displaying enthusiastic devotion

69. Biblical brother who sold his birthright

72. Half a score

76. Sticking point?

77. General idea

79. Bit of smooth eveningwear

80. Typical landing page, online

81. Executive's underling: Abbr.

83. Bra straps might cause them

84. Sick kid's in-house caregiver

85. Any of 17 Monopoly spaces: Abbr.

90. Presidential first name drawn from the Bible

91. Nail the test

93. Brontë orphan

94. Like a video with an inflated view count, maybe

95. Feature of the jacks of spades and hearts

96. Dolly Parton classic

97. Cancel, as a NASA mission

98. Western landforms

99. Father of Methuselah

100. Observe Yom Kippur, say

101. "The Crown" role

104. Mess up

105. What one should do periodically while caramelizing onions

106. Criminal hothead?

108. Trade show

110. Lose tautness

112. Zing

113. Be a burden on

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